Plugged In

DJ Tronic hosts the Plugged In show on KBOO the first and third Friday of each month from 10pm - 12am PST. Tronic does a live DJ mix in the studio featuring the latest in deep house, house, techno, tech house, breaks, drum-n-bass, downtempo and more. Tronic also has guest DJs in the studio, and we often talk about upcoming parties and club nights, and have ticket and CD giveaways on the show.

Composer of mercurial soundtracks for uncertain times, Thavius Beck conjoins various strains of electronic music to arrive at a daringly ambitious sound. He recently joined a lineup of local artists to celebrate black electronic music and benefit KBOO at Holocene in Portland, Oregon.

Mr. Beck has received recognition in The Wire, Spin, and Urb for his solo releases under the moniker Adlib, the Labwaste project with fellow LA artist Subtitle, his recent production for fellow Mush artist K-The-I???, his early work with Global Phlowtations, numerous guest appearances, and producing for and touring in support of and accompanying Saul Williams. An exceptional programmer, engineer and multi-instrumentalist, Thavius Beck’s many talents allow him to take a song from idea to completion without ever having to leave his cluttered studio. Check out one of his videos here

Recently, Holocene hosted one of a series of these where electronic musicians are given a variety of short samples of music and are challenged to come up with some dope beats in one hour. Wanna hear what it sounds like?

As a preview of the upcoming Beat Off at Holocene, I hosted the organizer of the event and a few electronic artists who will be competing. We even had our own mini beat off beat battle on the air.

On the show was Beat Off organizer Erik Beats, Dirty X Rated, The New Plastic, and Trick-Assed Marxist. We heard some of their work, including some of their past competitions, and then finished the program with a beat battle challenge using the same samples that will be used for the Beat Off next week. You'll have to listen to find out who was voted the winner!

On Friday, February 7th, Plugged In on KBOO was proud to have JAK play a special 2-hour set for our pledge drive special.

JAK has been playing and producing quality underground techno and house music since the late 90s. However, it’s Jack’s studio output over the past few years on labels such as Torque, Fade Records, Subspec, 530Techno, SlapJaxx and his own SubSensory Recordings that’s advancing his reputation as a U.S. artist to watch.

JAK’s original tracks and remixes have hit the top 50 sales charts on leading outlets. His tunes have been remixed by the likes of Audio Injection, Adam Jay, Mark Broom and Angel Alanis. His label SubSensory Recordings celebrated 5 years and 50 releases in late 2012 and continues to earn plays by may of techno’s greats such as Juan Atkins, Carl Cox and Slam.

January 31st, 2014, Tronic was joined in the studio by Suff-X who played a great set of breakbeats in the second hour. In the first hour, I explored a variety of broken beat genres from downtempo / midtempo to drum & bass.